The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Director of Public Prosecutions [The Telegraph]
Trainee solicitor minimum salary to be abolished on 1 August [Legal Futures]
The ‘short suit’ is finally going mainstream [Business Insider]
Secret court jails gran who hugged her granddaughter: Pensioner sentenced to three months after disobeying order she should not see the teenager [Mail Online]
Barrister slams pupillage candidate snooping [Twitter]
If sets look you up on social media before your #interview tell them to jog on and get a life #s-aaa-aaad #pupillage #noseyparker
— Rhys Evans (@RE30PP) June 8, 2014
Crown Prosecution Service under fire again after court cases dropped because prosecutor does not turn up [The Oxford Times]
Trojan Horse: school pledges legal action to fight “slurs” [The Telegraph]
Legal aid “impasse” forces top family judge to adjourn [Law Society Gazette]
Fourfold increase coming in maximum amount magistrates can fine [The Guardian]
Taking after Kim and Kanye?! George Clooney and barrister fiancé Amal Alamuddin agree to marry in Italy — but there’s a twist! [Perez Hilton]
Heard in court [Facebook]
“Will this will help the public in their perceptions of lawyers?” [Legal Cheek Comments]